Unlocking High Performance

Unlocking High Performance

Unlocking High Performance, hosted by Jason Lauritsen, is a podcast for leaders who want strong results without burning out their people. Through solo reflections and honest conversations with leaders, Jason looks at how clarity, alignment, and connection shape the way work actually gets done.

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Caring for the Whole Person at Work with Tim Anderson

August 6, 2026 • 28 mins
Most leaders were trained to tell people to leave their personal lives at the door. This conversation makes the case for the opposite. Tim Anderson, president and CEO of the United States Senate Federal Credit Union, explains how his team built a workplace that treats employees as whole people and still runs a strong business. You will hear how flexibility, mental and financial health support, and a leader who knows his people by n...
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What To Do When You Feel Stuck

July 30, 2026 • 18 mins
Feeling stuck is one of the most common and most isolating experiences in work and in life. In this solo episode, Jason Lauritsen shares his own year-long effort to move his business forward after realizing he kept landing in the same place, year after year. He walks through what it actually took to break the loop, why reinventing the business meant reinventing himself, and the two lessons that made the difference. If you are wo...
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How To Scale Culture Without Losing It with Jamie Griffin

July 23, 2026 • 29 mins
If you are trying to keep your culture consistent as you grow, this conversation shows you how one people leader is doing it across hundreds of locations and thousands of frontline workers. You will learn why clarity and alignment are two different jobs, how an origin story becomes a tool for shaping culture, how to design the employee experience so people live your values without ever being handed a document, and why the shift fro...
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What Caring Actually Looks Like as a Leader

July 2, 2026 • 15 mins
In this solo episode, Jason explores with a question that sounds simple until you look at it closely. What does it look like to care for someone as their leader? He talks through why care at work has to look different from the care we show at home because the relationship has specific purpose. And he highlights the moments when the most caring thing a leader can do is to step into a difficult conversation with the employee. Key hi...
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Scaling Without Losing Your Culture with Spencer Douglas

June 17, 2026 • 37 mins
When a company grows fast, it's easy to see only the good in it. The wins keep coming, so the quieter thing underneath is easy to miss. Some of the core things that fueled the company’s growth start to drift, and it rarely shows up as a culture problem at first. It shows up somewhere else, in a client commenting that things feel different or a long-term employee deciding to leave. In this episode, Jason talks with Spencer Dou...
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Introducing the Connected Performance Group

June 10, 2026 • 21 mins
In this episode, Jason does something a little different and talks through his own business, newly relaunched as Connected Performance Group. He shares why he rebuilt the way he works with clients, and lays out the system he developed over two decades for getting at the root of performance problems instead of just the surface. If you've followed his work for years but were never quite sure what he actually does for organizations, t...
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Your Leadership Blind Spots Are Hiding in Plain Sight

June 3, 2026 • 15 mins
Everyone carries a particular way of seeing the world. It's shaped by where we grew up, how we were taught, and the experiences we’ve collected along the way. Most of the time, it goes unnoticed. But that lens shapes how situations get read, how people get judged, and how someone leads. When it goes unexamined, it can become a dangerous blind spot for leaders. In this solo episode, Jason looks at how the lens through which we...
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Proud Employees Don't Need to Be Pushed with Chris Sund

May 28, 2026 • 32 mins
In this episode of Unlocking High Performance, Jason is joined by Chris Sund, President and CEO of UnityMed and GQR Healthcare and COO of Nebula. Chris leads a distributed workforce across healthcare staffing, recruiting, and AI-powered talent solutions, and he shares how his teams treat experience design as a deliberate, structured part of the business. At a time when many workplaces are leaning harder into productivity pressure, ...
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The Golden Rule of Management Behind High-Performing Teams

May 20, 2026 • 12 mins
In this solo episode of Unlocking High Performance, Jason unpacks one of the most important drivers of team performance: clarity. He describes a pattern he’s seen repeated across organizations of every size. Leaders get frustrated with team members who seem unmotivated or off track, when the real issue is that they have not been clear about what's expected. Jason makes the case that clarity, not motivation, is the real fuel b...
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Why Job Descriptions No Longer Fit Modern Work with Lisa Sterling

May 7, 2026 • 37 mins
Join Jason Lauritsen as he sits down with Lisa Sterling, Chief People Officer at Perceptyx, for a conversation about why the traditional job description has run its course and what becomes possible when leaders stop trying to fit people into predetermined boxes. Lisa argues that job descriptions are a century-old artifact, originally built for factories that needed standardized, repeatable work. We are still using that same contain...
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The 5 Drivers of Employee Performance

April 29, 2026 • 22 mins
In this solo episode, Jason shares the framework he calls the Five Drivers of Performance. It is what he has distilled from years of real-world leadership advising, and it challenges one of the most persistent assumptions leaders make when performance breaks down. Jason unpacks what actually drives employee performance and why most leaders misdiagnose it. He walks through each of the five drivers, from the most common to the leas...
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How Clarity at the Top Makes Culture Actually Work with Melissa Moore

April 22, 2026 • 25 mins
In this episode, Jason sits down with Melissa Moore, the first People and Culture Executive hired at Ampere Computing before their rapid growth. Together, they unpack how intentional leadership, values operationalization, and a relentless focus on clarity helped build a high-performance culture as the company scaled from 275 employees to over 1,400 across six countries. Key highlights from the conversation include: 👉 Clarity a...
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Why Don’t People Come With User’s Manuals?

April 15, 2026 • 17 mins
In this solo episode, Jason introduces a practical team exercise called the personal user's manual. The concept is simple. It's a way for each person on a team to document how they work best so their teammates don't have to guess. We have instructions for nearly everything we own. But when it comes to the people we work with every day, there's no guide. No clear way to know how someone prefers to communicate, when they're focused ...
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What the 2026 Global Talent Trends Report Reveals About a Workforce in Crisis with Kate Bravery

April 8, 2026 • 30 mins
Jason Lauritsen sits down with Kate Bravery, Senior Partner and Global Leader of Talent Advisory at Mercer, to dig into the findings from Global Talent Trends report. Now in its 11th year, the study draws on more than 12,000 voices across 24 countries and 16 industries, capturing the perspectives of employee experience, leadership, AI adoption, and the growing pressure on organizations to deliver stronger performance in a workforce...
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How to Solve Your Brilliant Jerk Problem

April 2, 2026 • 16 mins
In this straight-talking solo episode of Unlocking High Performance, Jason Lauritsen tackles one of the most difficult leadership challenges CEOs, HR leaders, and managers face: what to do about the “brilliant jerk.” These are the high performers who deliver results on paper but create dysfunction, erode trust, and quietly damage the people around them. Jason explains why tolerating toxic high performers can slow decis...
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Unlocking High Performance Official Trailer

March 29, 2026 • 1 min
An introduction to Unlocking High Performance and the conversations shaping leadership, growth, and performance.
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I'm Back! New Name, Same Mission

March 25, 2026 • 4 mins
Jason Lauritsen has spent more than two decades helping leaders build organizations where people and performance both thrive. In this special episode, he introduces the next chapter of his podcast, now called Unlocking High Performance, and shares the thinking behind the change, what listeners can expect going forward, and why this work matters more than ever. The relaunch is more than a name change. It is a recommitment to a centr...
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What Gen Z Wants from Work with Bailey Lauritsen

December 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Join Jason for an insightful, heartfelt conversation with his daughter Bailey, a high school senior and returning guest who brings a fresh, next-generation perspective on work, communication, and the rapidly changing world of careers.   As the year comes to a close, Bailey returns to reflect on her early work experiences, lessons in workplace culture, and what the future holds. As a member of Gen Z looking towards college and ...
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How Small Actions Foster Big Connection at Work with Shalynne Jackson

December 2, 2025 • 38 mins
Join Jason for a thought-provoking episode as he welcomes Shalynne Jackson, Chief Culture and Engagement Officer and CEO of Sonder Strategies. Shalynne is renowned for her commitment to building workplaces where people feel seen, connected, and valued.   In this episode, Jason and Shalynne dive deep into how organizations can foster meaningful human connection at work, especially in times when disconnection and loneliness are...
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What You Should Know About Your Gen Z Employees with Tess Brigham

November 11, 2025 • 41 mins
"I'm going to enjoy my life now. If there is no golden goose at the end of this, no pot, there's no money at the end of this rainbow, I'm just going to enjoy my life now." - Tess Brigham speaking about the Gen Z perspective on work   ** Join Jason Lauritsen for an insightful episode featuring Tess Brigham, licensed therapist, certified coach, and TEDx speaker. Tess brings over 20 years of expertise in guiding young people to ...
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